transverse

Senso (Inglese)

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
2. (not-comparable) Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
3. (not-comparable) (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. (For the general definition, see Transversality (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.)
4. (not-comparable, obsolete) Not in direct line of descent; collateral.

Noun

1. Anything that is transverse or athwart, such as a road or a ship's web frame.
2. The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

Verb

1. (transitive) To lie or run across; to cross.
2. (transitive) To traverse or thwart.
3. (transitive) To overturn.
4. (transitive) To alter or transform.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

Concetti

trasversale

traverso

trasverso

Opposto di

longitudinal

sinonimi

transversal

cross

oblique

horizontal

normal mode

differential

metallic mode

odd mode

diagonal

thwartwise

crosswise

differential-mode

awry

thwart

athwart

crossing

symmetrical

slanting

cross-cut

not smooth

cross fold

superimposed fold

sidelong

aslant

cockeyed

crackpot

cross-town

devious

diametral

kinky

lateral

rakish

askew

skew

slant

sloping

traverse

traversing

wry

catty-corner

Traduzioni

quer

transverso

transversal

transversal

transversal

dwars

transverso

transversal

diagonal

εγκάρσιος

schräg

tranversal

querliegend

transverse

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/tɹanzˈvɜːs/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: -

In summary

Late Middle English, from Latin trānsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal.

Frasi

Elongation in hydrostats is caused by the contraction of transverse or helical musculature arrangements .

L'allungamento negli idrostati è causato dalla contrazione delle disposizioni muscolature trasversali o elicoidali.